Rahimi (P. Ramlee) works as a shoeshine boy in a kampong near Kuala Lumpur to support himself and his blind mother (Neng Yatimah). While doing his rounds near a local nightclub, he hears the renowned trumpeter Zulkifli plays and gets inspired to be a musician. The prodigious Rahimi gains financial support and undergoes personal coaching by Zulkifli. By the time he’s a grown-up, Zulkifli recommends him to perform in Singapore to further his music career. Upon arrival in Singapore (at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station), he makes his way straight to the Great World Amusement Park, only to realize that the band instructor he’s looking for has gone abroad. A disgruntled Rahimi loiters about downtown Singapore, lugging his trumpet around the Padang and its colonial monuments, spits his cigarette into the Singapore River at Anderson Bridge, and passes Shaw Brothers-owned Capitol Theatre (it’s a ‘product-placement’…) Nevertheless, Rahimi’s musical talent lands him lucrative stints at the most renowned cafes and he becomes a target for a group of conspirators to swindle him of his money. (Singapore is a corrupted city, it seems.) He falls blindly in love with a cheat as he forsakes his mother, leading to very dire consequences, including a deadly accident at the Bukit Timah Railway Station.